ORNL researchers used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to map the molecular vibrations of an important but little-studied uranium compound produced during the nuclear fuel cycle for results that could lead to a cleaner, safer world.
Filter News
Area of Research
- Biology and Environment (9)
- Clean Energy (14)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Engineering (4)
- Computer Science (4)
- Data (2)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion and Fission (2)
- Isotopes (1)
- Knowledge Discovery (1)
- Materials (15)
- Materials for Computing (4)
- National Security (8)
- (-) Neutron Science (3)
- Quantum information Science (22)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (93)
More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards from Secretary Jennifer Granholm in January as part of project teams spanning the national laboratory system.
It’s not enough to design new drugs. For drugs to be effective, they have to be delivered safely and intact to affected areas of the body. And drug delivery, much like drug design, is an immensely complex task.